An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

In the next place, Let us consider the Property of Gods mercy. And¹

1. 1Of the Properties of Gods mercies.

1. He is infinite in mercy, as well as in other attributes. So that this fountain can never be drawn dry, he hath mercy enough for thee and me, and for all the humbled sinners in the world: If all the Nations of the world are but as a drop to him, so neither are all the sins of the world, but as a drop to his mercy. No sins are too many, or too great for Gods mercy. And truly this consideration alone, is that which doth revive and establish the drooping soul; for if it were but the mercy of a creature, if it were finite mercy that thou hadst to do with, woe and again woe would be unto thee. The Prophet Isaiah speaks fully to this, Chap. 55. 7, 8, 9. where there is an encouragement given to the wicked, To forsake his evil ways, because God will have mercy, yea he will abundantly pardon, or multiply to pardon; and whereas the sinner might think, Surely God will never do so, to such an heinous and wretched sinner as I am; the Prophet tells us, Gods thoughts are not as our thoughts, but as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways, viz. of mercy to our ways. As then the earth is but like a pins head, in respect of the vast dimensions of the Heavens; so are all our sins comparatively to Gods mercy. If then thou hast great thoughts about thy sins, saying, They are greater than thou canst bear, yet have as great thoughts of Gods mercy, and know they are not greater than mercy can take away.

1. He is infinite in mercy, as well as in other attributes. So that this fountain can never be drawn dry, he hath mercy enough for thee and me, and for all the humbled sinners in the world: If all the Nations of the world are but as a drop to him, so neither are all the sins of the world, but as a drop to his mercy. No sins are too many, or too great for Gods mercy. And truly this consideration alone, is that which doth revive and establish the drooping soul; for if it were but the mercy of a creature, if it were finite mercy that thou hadst to do with, woe and again woe would be unto thee. The Prophet Isaiah speaks fully to this, Chap. 55. 7, 8, 9. where there is an encouragement given to the wicked, To forsake his evil wayes, because God will have mercy, yea he will abundantly pardon, or multiply to pardon; and whereas the sinner might think, Surely God will never do so, to such an hainous and wretched sinner as I am; the Prophet tells us, Gods thoughts are not as our thoughts, but as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways, viz. of mercy to our wayes. As then the earth is but like a pins head, in respect of the vast dimensions of the Heavens; so are all our sins comparatively to Gods mercy. If then thou hast great thoughts about thy sins, saying, They are greater than thou canst bear, yet have as great thoughts of Gods mercy, and know they are not greater than mercy can take away.